MAN Features
Press Newsletter February 2012
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Business is booming in Brazil!
- The Brazilian economy is ranked as the world’s seventh largest and the country is also one of a group of four emerging economies, called the BRIC countries. MAN Diesel & Turbo has worked in Brazil for many years and currently employs over 200 staff at a variety of locations in the country.
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Front-runner on Brazil’s truck market in 2011
- 2011 saw MAN Latin America once again record the most truck registrations in Brazil by far—for the ninth year in a row.
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Engines for the future
- Whether biodiesel, electricity, ethanol, biogas or numerous other fuels—the race to integrate new low-carbon fuel technologies has begun in the transportation sector. Brazil is consequently following this route.
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First Tier III EGR engine order landed
- MAN Diesel & Turbo has received the first order for an large-bore diesel engine equipped with its second-generation EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) system, to be applied aboard a new Maersk Line container vessel of 4,500-teu (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit).
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New coach for the EHC
- MAN handed over a new team coach to Munich’s ice hockey club, EHC München.
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Green souls unite against thirst
- Europe's largest organic brewery, Lammsbräu in Neumarkt (in the Oberpfalz region), places a lot of importance on MAN TGM.
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Paramount patterns
- Offering a multitude of products and variants bears the risk of high costs—due to additional design, purchasing, manufacturing and logistics. In order to reduce this level of complexity without forgoing variety, MAN relies on a variant management system.
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Crown jewels of the sea
- Every year, the Southampton Boat Show is the center of attention for luxury shipyards and their clientele. During the event, the basin on the Mayflower Park quay turns into the world’s most expensive harbor.
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